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Re: InvalidXLogRecPtr in docs

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-06-10T07:00:46Z
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On 10/06/10 05:56, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com>  writes:
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Takahiro Itagaki
>> <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>  wrote:
>>> I found a term "InvalidXLogRecPtr" in 9.0 docs.
>>> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-RECOVERY-INFO-TABLE
>>> | ... then the return value will be InvalidXLogRecPtr (0/0).
>
>> Maybe we should be returning NULL instead of 0/0.
>
> +1 for using NULL instead of an artificially chosen value, for both of
> those functions.

Agreed, committed a patch to do that.

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